This is the way. In ‘some’ cases comments are perfectly fine. Like when you need to document ‘why’ something was done the way it was our to link to a specific piece of documentation.
When you start commenting ‘what’ the code does, you code is not self explanatory enough. And those comments will get outdated and need refactoring too. Just more unnecessary work.
Actually it resembles an aircraft propeller, because that’s what their engines were for.